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sensitive odd-pinnate small linear leaflets. Floivers in sparse racemes. 



Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the lips faintly toothed. Corolla fugacious ; 



standard orbicular ; keel not beaked. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; 



anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, linear, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 



incurved, stigma terminal. Pod linear, with a stalk longer than the 



calyx, and 4-8 flattened 1-seeded separating joints. Species about 30, 



spread everywhere in the tropics. 



Stems woody, slender, much-branched ; calyx and corolla small 



glabrous ; pods narrow, smooth ... ... ... 1. M. indica. 



Stems pith-like, stout, little-branched ; calyx and large corolla 



hispid; pods broad, warted ... ... ... 2. M. aspera. 



1. iEsCHYNOMENE indica Linn. Sp. PI. 713. A slender, much branch- 

 ed annual undershrub, stems 1-3 feet high under "15 in. in diam. at base ; 

 everywhere glabrous, pale-green ; branches slender twiggy terete. 

 Leaf-rachis 2-3 in. long ; leaflets close, terminal and in 20-30 opposite 

 pairs, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved, "2 in. long ; stipules lanceolate, '3 in. 

 long, membranous, deciduous, with a large auricle. Racemes axillary i-4- 

 fld. ; peduncles 1 in. and pedicels \3 in., usually viscid ; bracteoles small 

 subulate glandular. Calyx '2 in., glabrous, teeth unequal the two upper 

 subcormate, persistent, withering. Corolla pale-yellow, tinged with pink 

 or orange, "45 in. long, glabrous, fugacious, standard orbicular emarginate. 

 Stigma capitate. Pod 1—15 in. long, straight or at times slightly 

 curved, upper suture even, lower indented between the 8-10 separating 

 smooth or faintly papillose joints 12—15 in. broad. DC. Prodr. II, 320 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 274; Bak. in Flor, Brit. Ind. II, 151. JE. 

 pumila Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II, 1061 ; DC. Prodr. II, 321. M. aspera 

 Wall. Cat. 5666 not of Linn. M. diffusa Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 1164; DC. 

 Prodr. II. 321 ; Wall. Cat. 5565. M. viscidula Willd. Enum. 776. J57. 

 Moxburghii Spreng. Syst. Ill, 322. Smithia aspera Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 56; Flor. Ind. Ill, 343. Hedysarum Neli-Tali Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57; 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 365. 



Andamans ; Port Mouat, plentiful. Prov. Welle sley ; Ridley 8009 ! 

 Distrib. Tropics generally. 



2. iEscHYNOMENE aspera Linn. Sp. PI. 713. A tall erect swamp- 

 shrub reaching 10-12 feet in height, stems 3 in. or more in diam., 

 externally glabrous, internally full of soft white pith ; branches few or 

 none. Leaf-rachis 3-6 in. long ; leaflets terminal and in 30-50 opposite 

 pairs, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved, "5 in. long ; stipules lanceolate *5 in. long, 

 auricled, deciduous. Racemes axillary corymbosely 2-4-fld. ; peduncles 

 1 in. and pedicels *4 in. clothed with spreading bristles ; bracteoles 

 small ovate deciduous. Calyx 4 in., hispidly bairy, unequally 5-toothed, 

 the two upper teeth subconnate. Corolla *75 in. yellow, fugacious, 

 standard orbicular. Pod 2-2*5 in. long, "3 in. across, often indented on 



